Immigration Dept mulls one-year limit for officers stationed at sensitive posts, says Ruslin

The Star

Immigration Department director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh told a press conference on Monday (Sept 9) that the proposal to limit Immigration officers to one-year terms at sensitive posts, followed by rotation, will be considered if the need arises.   He said this when asked about the recent arrests of its personnel by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission over "counter setting" activities at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport terminals.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/eg6bx  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00As we all know, there have been arrests of several immigration officers in KALAYE.

00:10We all know that, for me, my position is very clear.

00:16My position in this case is that we will not compromise any of our officers

00:21who violate our documents, our regulations, passport documents, immigration documents, and SOP

00:28including the direction of the Director-General.

00:30That is one of the principles of every immigration officer.

00:33They have to be loyal to these officers.

00:37They cannot work outside of this context.

00:41Therefore, we strongly support the actions taken by the SPRM.

00:46And I and the immigration team will fully cooperate with the authorities

00:53to carry out the investigation.

00:55And we will fully entrust the SPRM to carry out their actions.

01:03At the same time, at our level, we want to make sure that

01:08our immigration officers, especially those at the immigration gates,

01:12are an integrated officer.

01:14That is the most important thing.

01:16Therefore, what are our actions?

01:19One of the things that we always do, without fail,

01:23is to carry out a spot check and review.

01:26Especially at the immigration gates.

01:28For the record, at our immigration gates,

01:32for this year and the previous year alone,

01:35we have carried out 277 reviews.

01:39What is the purpose of this review?

01:42This review is to ensure that our immigration officers

01:47comply with our procedures,

01:50comply with our regulations,

01:52so that we can see that it is not easy for them

01:56to take actions outside of our regulations.

02:00That is the most important thing.

02:02Therefore, if we go there and we find that our officers

02:05have violated the guidelines,

02:07then we will carry out a spot check on those officers.

02:11At the same time, if we see that the officers are not fit to be there,

02:15then we will transfer them to another place.

02:18This is related to the work process.

02:21We don't want an immigration officer to sit in a sensitive place

02:24and work for a long time.

02:26In the past, we said a 5-year term,

02:28but a sensitive position cannot be more than 3 years.

02:31There is a need, I will shorten it to 1 year.

02:34That is our target.

02:36The appropriateness of the officers,

02:38the integrity of the officers,

02:39and also the time period,

02:41we need to always look at.

02:43In other words,

02:44we will carry out the work cycle continuously.

02:47We hope that our efforts will bear fruit.

02:53At the same time,

02:54we will also carry out enforcement activities continuously.

02:58We will also cooperate with the authorities,

03:01such as the police and other agencies.

03:05We will also clean up and reorganize

03:09so that we can get our hands on the issue of setting up offices.

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